pco.edge 10 bi LT back-illuminated sCMOS camera

The pco.edge 10 bi LT sCMOS camera from PCO comes with a back-illuminated image sensor offering up to 85% quantum efficiency with broad spectrum out to NIR, making it suitable for applications in microscopy, life science and physical science.

The sensor is temperature stabilised and monochrome, and incorporates micro lenses and full pixel height deep trench isolation for crosstalk suppression resulting in a good MTF. Further, the camera provides a large image circle by using a high-resolution 4416 x 2368 pixel 10.46 MP image sensor with a square pixel size of 4.6 µm.

An ultralow dark current and a readout noise of 1.3 (@ 120 fps) electrons are achieved by thermal stabilisation and active cooling of the image sensor. Moreover, the sensor technology enables reduction of the noise peak and tail in the noise distribution histogram, which makes it comparable to the noise behaviour of CCD sensors. Together with a high full well capacity, this leads to a dynamic range of 15,385:1. The camera offers high frame rates of up to 120 fps and transmission via a CLHS fibre-optic link.